The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-01

and the United States, gathering stati5tleS
in psychological facts, and the results OF
which will shortly be given to the world,
are, to say the least, somewhat startling.
4 railroad disaster occurred last fall in
Illinois; some ten were killed and several
wounded. A lady, whose husband wos
absent, was sleeping with young girl, a
friend of hers, in Charleston, Mass. About
she awoke with \ wild scream,
clasping her companion apparently in the
greatest agony AS soon as she was
thoroughly awake she described railroad |
disaster which she had just witnessed, in
which she had seen her husband killed. |
TO one; at quarter to twelve the accident |
took place on that very night and tile wo-
mans husband was among the killed. !
Here in New York only the other evening
a man who was working on building
made mistake, and instead of striking a
nail which he was driving, he smashed his
finger; lie Immediately hurried home, and
on entering the room his wife asked him
how his finger was. She was sick in her
bed and had no communication with the
outside world, bnt declared she had seen
the accident which occurred on the otl c.
side of the city an honr before, and zc-
curately described the surroundings, ,theugh
she had never teen in the building in her
life. A friend told NE he had \ boy in bis
emplay whose honesty lie h"d no reason to
suspect. as he ccoApied q very confidential
position. lie received = communication
from one OF those psychological seers in
State some hundreds Of miles away that his
boy was robbng him. The prophecies had
never seen the suspected thief nor he her,
and the man in whose employ he was had
no reason 20 suspect his honesty, but he in
vestiyatld the matter and found that the
boy had been guilty OF systematic thoit fey
months past nd quickly discharged him
! from his service. Madame DlaY0oky, who
vas the leading spsrit here for years, and
VII fterwardl went TO India with Colonel
Clcott, Is said to havo told gentleman Of
this city that she could have whatever she
wanted by asking for It, though am net
quite sure that IS did not require some
mystic words to summon the attendant
spirits. On one occasion, in conversation
with prominent member of the press, she
stated that she would have occasion TO use
q thousand dollars that morning. He easEed
her where she expected to get it, and she
pointed to ! closet in the room, saying,
ITT,I.- - h. ,,1
opening it saw nothing but an empty shelf;
he turned bis head fcr a moment, saying,
there is nothing here. You are mistaken,
sir, she said in an imperious Yoice-lc K
again? He turned his head, and there on
the shelf sure enough was a roll OF crisp
new bills, exactly one thousand Golla.s.
These and the late wonderful revelations in
mind reading have led to Thorough scien-
tific research into all kinds of psychological
phenomena Parties are held in our most
fashionable houses where palinis.ry is one
of the latest fads. In the matter of super
sttion it looks as though we were going
backwards. There are dozen male and
female seers here, with elegant apartments
} and servants in waiting, where the consulta
} ton fee is from five to ten dollars, and
where you have TO wait in the reception
room sometimes couple of hours, await
ing your turn for an interview with tht
: representative of his mysterious Majesty!
We are just now trying to figure out whicl
of the two was crazy-Payne, the miser
. who gave @4OO, 900 to Chckering-or Chick
ering, who after Payne's death, discovers
the treasure in his strong box which III
q human being knew anything about but him
b. self, and who hunted up Mr.. Payne's re
i lations and now seeks to turn the none,
a over to them. Yes, record it to the world
e let it go forth 5n the wings of the morning
let the lightnin9s convey it to the remotes
ends OF the esrth, and let the telephone
proclaim it on the marts of commerce ant
> in the temples of the money changers, tina
I if in New York we have some of the bigges
thieYes that TIE world eyer 81. v, we hay
: also tic most hoi..Jt man that this eartl
) haS y. 1duceG since Adam, md bis namo
u Charl.s +. Chickerllg just think OF IL
: 1900, ,000l No drafts oe bol1s, but geo
" solid -ash, and to keep it intact for tTent
g yeats aAd then give it up without u sigh
g It is well to know in t!',s faithlesa age tha
: there is such a mau alive; that honesty
= rot fable, and taat clean, bright, spotles
~ honor still lives among men. If Henry n
: Payne had bought four per cent. govern
y ment bonds with that money twenty-fiv
years ago and given them to Mr.. Chckrin
- instead of the greenbacils, the simple il
u terest on them alone would have been $500
- 900, and if compounded would have bee
. considerably over a million. When "
10 contemplate the squalid wretchedness {
!" Payne's life, and the terrible suffering h
" must have endured at the times from hungt
- and cold, it is but merciful to suppose thu
the man was mad as March hare.
But Mr. Chickering is not the only hone
- man in this great city,-no,-there al
twelve other honest men whose names wi
" pass into history alongside of Mr.. Chicke
u ing's-the names are those of the jury th'
:, 20 convicted McQuade the rascally Alderman
)" I confess that had lost confidence in N
kind till l heard that verdict, but since
10 feel better and am willing to confess thi
81 the world is much better than / gave
Il credit for Twelve honest men There al
'r enough of them to save two or thrt
Is Sodoms. And speaking of these hone
men, look at the terrible temptations TIL
surrounded them. First, there was Il
combined wealth of the ring, which
threatened with destruction; there we
millions in it; single vote was worth
ed fortune; $4,000 would have been free
We given by the indicted Aldermen and the
n friends. Then every man who assisted
he the conviction might for the rest of
m natural life expect the bitter enmitY al